Errors compiling Gnucash for Mac OSX

Tristan Chase ubu69 at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 8 23:44:06 EDT 2004


Howard,

I tried this shell script, but could not get it to open when I 
double-clicked on it. I'm running OS 10.2.6. Should this work for me or 
does it only work in 10.3?

-Tristan Chase

On Tuesday, Jul 6, 2004, at 17:39 America/New_York, Howard Kim wrote:

>   Robyn,
>
>   To make these even easier, make a small shell script to launch via 
> Finder.
>
> 1. Make a text file with .x11app as the extension (e.g., 
> gnucash.x11app)
> 2. In the file:
> #!/bin/sh
>
> /sw/bin/gnucash
> 3. Save the file and give it execute permission (chmod u+x 
> gnucash.x11app)
>
>   Now you can assign it an icon (the regular mac way) and double-click 
> it to launch gnucash.  Apple X11 is also smart enough to launch X11 if 
> it isn't already open.
>
>   Howard
>
> On Jul 6, 2004, at 12:51 PM, Robyn Phillips wrote:
>
>> on 6/7/04 7:49, Neil Williams wrote:
>>> To start Gnucash, find Applications/Utilities and start X11,
>>> then /sw/bin/gnucash in the xterm. I've set /sw/bin in my path using 
>>> bash and
>>> set gnucash in the X11 applications list, so it's available from the 
>>> X11
>>> menu.
>>>
>>
>> Neil - you are great. Thank you for helping me. Typing 
>> /sw/bin/gnucash in
>> X11 started it up and now, as a Quicken user, I just need to learn new
>> things.
>>
>>
>>
>>>> Can anyone provide me with instructions on how I can get gnucash to 
>>>> work on
>>>> my Mac? I do have some programming knowledge, but I am a few years 
>>>> out of
>>>> practice.
>>>>
>>>
>>> sudo fink selfupdate
>>> sudo fink install gnucash
>>> (wait . . . . )
>>>
>>> /sw/bin/gnucash
>>>
>>
>> The one thing I am confused about, is that that the readme files for 
>> Gnucash
>> gave me the impression I had to compile gnucash. But I haven't done 
>> this
>> (due to some errors). Have I misunderstood something?
>>
>>
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